HeffNeils 40x60 Building

[drivesitfar]

Heff: i watched several hours of CNN's coverage of Irma blowing 100 to 140 mph winds and gusts thru Naples and happy to hear you only lost a tree. sorry to hear it had to fall on your new garage, but i bet some of your neighbors are a lot worse off. any flooding?

is part of your permit and maybe the reason you built your shop with metal framing cause it has to be rated for 120+ winds?

hope you get the hole fixed before the rains come again.

BOB: i hope you didn't get in Irma's path and from the sounds of it i bet you didn't. good luck or did you pick your location to avoid hurricanes?

cheers and stay safe all of you in Florida and in all these hurricane's paths.

 

[heffneil]

Here are the results of the tree falling on the building. Looks like about $3k in parts





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[heffneil]

Heff: i watched several hours of CNN's coverage of Irma blowing 100 to 140 mph winds and gusts thru Naples and happy to hear you only lost a tree. sorry to hear it had to fall on your new garage, but i bet some of your neighbors are a lot worse off. any flooding?

is part of your permit and maybe the reason you built your shop with metal framing cause it has to be rated for 120+ winds?

hope you get the hole fixed before the rains come again.

BOB: i hope you didn't get in Irma's path and from the sounds of it i bet you didn't. good luck or did you pick your location to avoid hurricanes?

cheers and stay safe all of you in Florida and in all these hurricane's paths.

No flooding. I am not far from the beach as the crow flies. We were lucky. The canals emptied at one point and sucked all the water out the boats were on the ground - then they were 2 feet above the sea wall!

Power was just restored yesterday afternoon. I don't have terrible amounts of damage. The entire ridge cap of my home is gone practically and the most damage is to the building obviously. The fence on my south side is all blown over from the hedge leaning on it.

I have to remove some living trees so they can never fall on my house again. This banyan actually stood back up after we cut everything off hours later. I happened to be there just standing there when it stood back up. I will post a video from my security cameras! We are going to tip is back over and clean all the dirt off the roots and chop away at it!

 

[heffneil]

Been a while! Storm threw me for a loop. Still working with adjusters on the repairs and we’ve been removing the tree. I had to bring in a huge excavator to pick up the left overs of the tree it was so big.










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[heffneil]

I’ve brought in about 120 tons of dirt. We are going to sink two septic tanks for pumps to pump water out of the yard. The problem was we put unsealed pits in the yard and the water table is so high it never stopped pumping!


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[heffneil]

We started covering the header to the mezzanine with the flooring like the bathroom











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[heffneil]

Column and beam are all covered up. Don’t know if I need anything else covered. Thoughts?

I need to get a better pic more updated.



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[heffneil]

My new desk. Adjustable height. I think I might add a pencil / storage drawer.







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[drivesitfar]

Heff: how about a fairly dark stain on the wood railing to tie in with the column and beam?

how is Naples doing overall after those high winds from Irma? sorry to hear you had a tree fall on your new garage, but sounds like it's almost repaired and you are moving forward nicely.

 

[heffneil]

Heff: how about a fairly dark stain on the wood railing to tie in with the column and beam?



how is Naples doing overall after those high winds from Irma? sorry to hear you had a tree fall on your new garage, but sounds like it's almost repaired and you are moving forward nicely.

I haven’t really begun repairs. All I’ve done so far is take off anything dangling and use peel and stick to over the holes In the roof.

Overall we have a ton of debris. The fema contractors finally got to my street. These machines are like trains. They have a grappler that picks up the debris and then puts it in a 40 yard maybe bigger container and then they pull another same sized trailer behind it! They rain 8 trips today and haven't moves passed one house!

Winds were bad. Rains not so bad. A lot of landscaping has changed forever unfortunately. I don't know if I said it here but before the storm we had 70" of rain so things were soggy and roots weren't well rooted anymore . They were in mud and the winds just pushed things way over


Thanks for asking!

The cedar smells so good when its in there and we cut it up. I don't know if I want to seal it up or not but its an interesting idea to stain! The contrast has become more "normal" to my eye as I live more and more in the garage!




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[drivesitfar]

Heff: i love the smell of cedar too and i built a Pergola out of 6x6's and 2x10's a few years ago and this LITTLE cedar mailbox stand this last month out of 8x8's, 4x4's and 2x8's. the stain i picked is Redwood that would be too light if you were to stain yours, but you might like a little darker stain once the cedar stops giving off that amazing AROMA.

if you do stain you'll probably have to restain every couple years even though you are inside, but it might last a bit longer. they recommend every year, but that is outside up here in the rains of the PNW.

good luck with the clean up and i'm glad you didn't get blown off the planet.

cheers

 

[heffneil]

Here’s a pic of the clean up truck. 69 yard container on the truck and 60 yards on the trailer.


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[heffneil]

From the front




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[heffneil]

Got the desk all finished. Looks great. Works really nice. I want to build a iron pipe frame to hold monitors I think. I bought a great mount on amazon and it all checked out and went to order a second and it was out of stock with no eta. Just my luck.




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[heffneil]

Here’s the column all cladded with the flooring! Cedar edges keep some contrast.





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[matt_i]

I really like that wood cladding! Sorry to see all of the damage. Does part of the roof have to come off to repair or do you try to straighten the big panels as best as possible and go back with new trim?

 

[drivesitfar]

HEFF: you know with you having the raw cedar trim on the column it really does tie in with the cedar above on your railings so now i'm leaning to you not staining it and leaving it age as you do.

WOW that's a lot of tree limbs you and your neighbors had to pile up in front of your houses. amazing is all i can say.

we had a 50+ mph windstorm blow threw our town last night and couldn't even imagine what 130-140 mph winds would do cause we had power lines and trees down all over.

best of luck with the continued clean up and repairs and sounds like your home and your well built garage held up well.

cheers

 

[heffneil]

I really like that wood cladding! Sorry to see all of the damage. Does part of the roof have to come off to repair or do you try to straighten the big panels as best as possible and go back with new trim?

Insurance company says I should replace the purlins (the metal supports under the roof panels) . I really don't want to mess with that.

The guy who built the building said we can pull up the roof panels and put them back down and the spray foam will just be there but the bond will be gone so we might remove it and have it resprayed . The spraying is a mess - and gets everywhere.

 

[heffneil]

HEFF: you know with you having the raw cedar trim on the column it really does tie in with the cedar above on your railings so now i'm leaning to you not staining it and leaving it age as you do.

WOW that's a lot of tree limbs you and your neighbors had to pile up in front of your houses. amazing is all i can say.

we had a 50+ mph windstorm blow threw our town last night and couldn't even imagine what 130-140 mph winds would do cause we had power lines and trees down all over.

best of luck with the continued clean up and repairs and sounds like your home and your well built garage held up well.

cheers

Thanks! We left town but I watched after the fact on the cameras and its just insane. The rain was going sideways. The building was designed for 175mph winds. We had the gusts of 142. The power of the wind was just incredible. watching humans try to move around the lefts overs of this tree with heavy equipment and not be able to move it reinforces that notion I think!

 

[drivesitfar]

HEFF: as i mentioned when IRMA was in your area i was watching the CNN guy standing in the streets of Naples with that 100+ mph winds and surprised trees were standing. that big banyon tree that fell on your property was huge and hoping you get the damaged fixed before the rains come hard on you again.

the CNN guys were saying the difference between 130mph winds and 160MPH are like double instead of just 30mph.

good to hear your buildings were built to withstand 170mph and i could tell you were building it to be around for a few years.

keep up the good work and keep posting lots of pictures as you have time to.

 

[heffneil]

Thanks! Here’s my shelf loaded up. We used strut to support the end and a wood cleat on the back




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[heffneil]

I bought this a looong time ago. The guy working for me finally put it together. We tweaked it since It needed a back so the yellow bins can’t be pushed out the open back. Also we built like a bottom cradle with wheels to move it around. Sounds dangerous but seems fairly stable. What I don’t know is how to organize stuff in it. I’ll post the updates we made after this post.




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[heffneil]

Heres with the wheels



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[sean Buick 76]

Nice clean shelf I will copy that I think!!! How long were the struts you used?

 

[heffneil]

Thanks! The entire shelf was 19 feet long so one is 10 feet and the other is 9 feet. I am having fun figuring stuff out and making space where you wouldn't think there was space! I almost have everything downstairs now and the mezzanine really isn't even half full now!

 

[drivesitfar]

Heff: i'm going to build some loft type shelving above my huge ROTOBIN out of Unistrut instead of 2x4's which is what i made lofts out of 30 years ago when we moved into our home. it's handy to have a few sticks laying around isn't it?

are you don't cleaning up all of IRMA'S damage and is life pretty much back to normal in your area? did you fix the leaks if any from the damage while the insurance guys are figuring out the assesment?

i like your rolling storage, but don't load it so full that it won't move or worse yet tip when you try.

cheers

 

[LutzTD]

immediately thought of you when I saw this. I bet you could get it cheap.

https://tampa.craigslist.org/pnl/tls/d/cargo-lift-platform-lift/6368536703.html

 

[heffneil]

Heff: i'm going to build some loft type shelving above my huge ROTOBIN out of Unistrut instead of 2x4's which is what i made lofts out of 30 years ago when we moved into our home. it's handy to have a few sticks laying around isn't it?

are you don't cleaning up all of IRMA'S damage and is life pretty much back to normal in your area? did you fix the leaks if any from the damage while the insurance guys are figuring out the assesment?

i like your rolling storage, but don't load it so full that it won't move or worse yet tip when you try.

cheers

Not even close on the Irma damage. Arguing with the insurance company of course. The latest on the building is that the AC is a 3 ton unit and has been running 14+ hours a day in the summer / early fall (still hot). I called the AC vendor and told them something is wrong (i.e. its too small). They came out and poked a hole in my insulation and now they are blaming that it is sprayed on too thin. I have the installer coming back this week to take a look. Its a really sloppy job so I really don't want this vendor coming back in. They made a real mess.

I haven't ordered parts for the building yet. I need wall panels, order garage panels. They quoted me replacements purlins as well. I have to order a ton of parts but just haven't pulled the trigger. I've been spending time on filling the hole left from the tree (160 tons of dirt so far!) and fixing the pavers!

 

[heffneil]

immediately thought of you when I saw this. I bet you could get it cheap.

https://tampa.craigslist.org/pnl/tls/d/cargo-lift-platform-lift/6368536703.html

Wow that is awesome! I ended up buying a brand new skyjack 1930 from a vendor out of North Carolina I found on ebay. I wanted a genie for the color combo (blue and grey) but the skyjack is all relay based and doesn't use any computerized boards so I can actually fix this thing should it ever go bad. Also I get a 2 year warranty!

Thanks for thinking of me!

 

[heffneil]

Man that thing is beautiful! I was just looking at it again! if I hadn't bought the skyjack I would be all over it! It is exactly what I was looking for!

 

[LutzTD]

Man that thing is beautiful! I was just looking at it again! if I hadn't bought the skyjack I would be all over it! It is exactly what I was looking for!

I think you will be happier with the skyjack. duel purpose and all, really nice for changing light bulbs and such. I hate ladders, so Im a little jaded, but I think you did the right thing with the scissor lift

 

[heffneil]

Yeah I can't do ladders but I like the skyjack. When it first came I had it on my driveway and I used it to get a couple loose roof tiles hanging over the edge of the garage doors but on the second story. I was terrified it would fall on the kids! Turns out I need an entire new roof on my house

 

[heffneil]

We added a second level shelf which has been very very useful

Also you can see my fastpipe by fast cap cart we pieced together. I put a wood shelf on the bottom and the top I got a butcher block from lumber liquidators. I’ll update pics of it soon.






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[heffneil]

This is a better picture of the second level unistrut shelf




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[heffneil]

Here’s a better picture of the car with the butcher block top. We already put it to use.


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[heffneil]

Got some glove holders in. One was bent to ****. I bent it flat enough. Kinda disappointing it was beat up but it still works.


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[heffneil]

Long toll holder mounted on column.


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[heffneil]

Garden tools held up


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[heffneil]

Here’s the steps we built for the lift


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[heffneil]

Pavers expansion and a lot of repair started today


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